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I am a Student a LaGuardia Community College. I am doing a project for my English research paper class. My first time using wikicourse, and im excited to see how this works.

Summary 1: "Prologue," "The River,"and "The Fire."
The book 'Kindred" is so grasping, it keeps you wondering what's next. The idea of time traveling and slavery is what makes Dana's story so intriguing. So far Dana has yet to discover the paranormal activity behind her transportatioins and may never have an explanation for it. She does, however, find a lead to why these things may be happening to her, and its the reappearing boy, Rufus. Rufus is an ancestor of Dana and his near death experiences somehow triggers Dana's teleportation , while Dana's unbearable fear takes her back to her back home. I'm excited to see what happens next. I wonder if she'll end up being a slave !

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Summary 2: " The Fall"
The chapter "The Fall" is pretty nerve-wracking. This is now the third time Dana is called back in time to the Weyland Plantation in Antebellum, Maryland. Instead of traveling alone, her husband Kevin traveled with her where they saw Rufus with a broken leg and Nigel, one of Weyland's slave. Upon, their arrival, no one except Kevin is surprised; Rufus told Nigel about Dana so he was not too alarmed to see a woman appear from midair. In this Chapter, Dana finally meets Rufus' father, Tom Weylin and immediately Tom dislikes Dana because he sensed something rare from her. Later on Butler connects Tom's dislike towards Dana to her knowledge of being able to read, write and speak better than him. Not only does Dana meet Tom, she also meets his wife and Rufus' mother Margaret. Margaret also doesn't like having Dana around because Rufus likes her so much.

Kevin introduces himself as Dana's master and in bargains with Tom into allowing them to stay with him on the plantation. During their time there, Dana gets an idea of planting seeds into Rufus' mind for a security in futher transports. The only issue is for a while Dana doesnt see Rufus because he is trapped in his room healing his broken leg. Eventually, Dana gets to see Rufus and soon begin to read books to him. Tom catches Dana reading to Rufus from easedropping and order Dana to be read to Rufus and Rufus only. A few weeks has passed and Nigel asks Dana to teach him how to read. Dana cannot refuse the request and goes on teaching Nigel secretly despite her knowing the brutal consequences if they were to get caught. After a couple of days of successful secret reading lessons, Tom burst into the cookhouse where he bust into a reading lesson. Tom is raged and drags Dana out of the cookhouse to whip her. Kevin is far from Dana and is unable to save her, soon Dana feels like her life is about to end and she teleports back to her time leaving Kevin at the plantation.

The Novel "Kindred" just keeps getting better and better, can't wait to read about what happens next !Primadonnagirl123 (talk) 00:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Butler's Biography Assignment

 * The lead section is precise and clear, it is an overall synopsis of Butler and her Achievements as an author
 * I don't not like the structure of the article. It's organized in a weird way. The "Career" section doesn't talks about here career, it talks her books and gives a summary about it. I would re-title that section as "Butler's Work" and give a summary about them and the year of publication as well as any awards it received.
 * There are some aspects of Butler's identity that contributed to her works. I will include some of Butler's daily personal life like the way the newspaper article did so that we get an insight on Butler as a normal person. This information will have to go under a new section. I cant think of a title yet.
 * The sections are well balanced
 * The language is neutral and understandable, i like how the writer links certain words used to another wiki-site that elaborates or give the definition of a more complex word.
 * The writer uses many sources which is great.
 * some of the links are good but when i click on it it takes me to the wrong page. (i.e : Voices from the Gaps: Octavia Estelle Butler)
 * some links are dead links, so we can remove them.

Summary 3: "The Fight"
"The Fight", I believe was the climax of the novel. In this chapter so much has happened with all the characters. Free woman Alice and her slave husband Isaac attempted to run away after Isaac nearly beat Rufus to death after Rufus tried to rape his wife. Once again Dana is transported back in time to save Rufus from another near death experience. Later in the chapter Isaac and Alice are captured by patrollers and are taken into town to resale them back into slavery. Rufus takes Nigel into town with him a bring back Alice on her last limp and orders Dana to take care of her. Dana does so, and after a few months Alice is well and plot to escape once more. Dana discovers that Carrie and Nigel now has a baby since her last return, she also discovers that her husband Kevin, no longer lives on the plantation and is up North. With the dire need to see her husband and bring him back home to their modern time, Dana asks Rufus if he can mail her letter to him, stating that she is back on the plantation and for Kevin to come and get her. Rufus agrees and after a couple letters written and no response from Kevin, Alice tells Dana that Rufus never sent her letters out. After Rufus' betrayal to Dana, Dana plans to runaway ( which I found strange because she isn't a slave technically). One night when she felt like everyone was asleep, Dana snuck out the house and headed North to find Kevin, a few hours later, she hears noises and recognizes Rufus' and Tom Welyin's voice; they were looking for her. After finding her, they took her back to the plantation and Tom Weylin whipped her. This time, Dana didt transport home because she knew it was merely a punishment and that she wasn't going to die. Later, Dana found out that Tess told Tom and Rufus about her running away. A few months has passed now, Kevin appears at the plantation to get Dana. Its been five years for Kevin. As soon as Kevin arrived Dana retrieved her things and hopped on the back of Kevin's horse. On their way North, Dana and Kevin ran into Rufus and has a confrontation. Rufus tried to get Dana to come Back to the plantation with him by threatening to shoot kevin. Dana refused and Rufus aimed the gun at her, after screaming and fearing her life, Dana got dizzy and woke up with Kevin on her back, back home. Primadonnagirl123 (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Summary 4: "The Storm", "The Rope", and "The Epilogue"
These final three chapters didn't answer much of my questions i had throughout the novel. The main question that i'm sure most of us wanted answers to was, why was Dana was the "chosen" one to be transported back to Antebellum Maryland. In these chapters, Alice commits suicide, Rufus tries to rape Dana, Dana kills Rufus and all the remaining slaves are sold off. In "The Epilogue", Dana and Kevin revisits Antebellum in their present time to search for evidence that what they experienced was actually real. Out of the three chapters, my favorite was Epilogue. Butler summed up the novel beautifully. Primadonnagirl123 (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2014 (UTC)